This post is the first part in a series on the Kubernetes API. Future installments include Part 2 focused on the lifecycle of a
Serviceand Part 3 details how Kubernetes deployments work.
One of the most popular features of the recent v0.15.2 release of Pulumi is fine-grained status updates for Kubernetes resources. On the CLI they look like this:
In this post, we’ll take a look at 11 “pearls” – bite-sized code snippets – that demonstrate using Pulumi to build and deploy Kubernetes applications using cloud native infrastructure as code. These pearls are organized into three categories, each demonstrating a unique scenario:
Kubernetes has quickly become the “gold standard” for running containers in production, spanning public, private, and hybrid cloud scenarios. It’s been remarkable to watch its explosive growth just this past year alone. Every cloud vendor now supports an easy-to-use managed Kubernetes solution — Google GKE, Azure AKS, and AWS AKS — making it easier than ever to start writing and deploying Kubernetes applications.
Pulumi for Kubernetes is a way to create, deploy, and manage Kubernetes applications using your favorite programming languages. that works across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack, and other clouds, now to Kubernetes and cloud native architectures. You can dive right in here and look at some powerful things Pulumi enables here.
Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestrator for cloud native
applications that can run on any cloud – AWS, Azure, GCP – in
addition to hybrid and on-premises environments. Its CLI, kubectl,
offers basic built-in support for performing deployments, but
intentionally stops short here. In particular, it doesn’t offer diffs
and previews, the ability to know when a deployment has succeeded or
failed, and why, and/or sophisticated deployment orchestration.
In this post, we’ll see how Pulumi, an open source cloud native development platform, can not only let you express Kubernetes programs in familiar programming languages, like TypeScript, instead of endless YAML templates, but also how Pulumi delivers simple and reproducible, yet powerful, Kubernetes deployment workflows.
In this blog post, we’ll see how to run Jenkins on Kubernetes with Pulumi. We abstract away the complexity of the configuration into a reusable component to enable it to be reused by team mates. Our example is based on adapting a Helm template.